Apple attending NAB. Hardware/Software & FCS 4.

[Michael Totten]

Perhaps something like what Adobe's cooking up with CS5 and Mercury engine... ?

http://www.9to5mac.com/Apple-NAB-201...ntelligence%29

[Kaku Ito]

Interesting. The new Mac Book Pro should be there.

[Jason Samuel]

AWESOME!!!! I would really like to see new Mac Pro Towers... I'm in DIRE NEED!!!!! But y'all better believe I'll be there to find out!

[Benjamin Rowland]

This better be good. Avid and Adobe are pumping out some serious software. I'm sticking with FCP for the moment (been using it for a decade).

[Tony Augustinack]

Hopefully they will announce the new Final Cut Studio with 64 bit! It is in a desperate need of a worthy update!

[Stephen Gentle]

I think 64 bit Final Cut is certain - given that Logic and Aperture went 64 bit within the last few months... But that may just be a free upgrade since Final Cut Studio 3 just came out last July and it's a bit early to release a new version already.

I'm sure they've been working on a new version written with a Cocoa user interface for a long time now, so maybe they'll announce that new version but it won't be released for a few months?

But there should be new Macbooks and Mac Pros.

[Dan Graetz]

Wow - thanks Michael. While this isn't confirmation of anything it's nice to have a ray of hope. With the CS5 and Avid announcements of today and yesterday, anyone with serious $$s invested in FCP/Xsan ($300k+ for me) must be shitting hollowpoints.
The Australian Apple ProVid division has been completely shutdown and rolled into Corporate/Government. It's hard to feel comfortable when your point of contact changes every few months and all your Apple resellers are reporting strange and anti-competitive behaviour on Apple's part.
Time to get my glass-half-full on and stay awake for the 14th event :)

[Dan Graetz]

since Final Cut Studio 3 just came out last July and it's a bit early to release a new version already.

I think the overwhelming opinion was that FCS3 should have been a decimal point release (2.5) and wasn't worthy of being called a new version. Patchwork updates like enabling BluRay in Compressor instead of a proper DVD Studio Pro update rings alarm bells. Apple throws a lot into FCS effectively for free, which is awful nice of them - but at this point I'd rather pay twice as much for FCS and get some true development happening.

Bitch, bitch, moan, moan....get over it Dan. I'll find my happy place soon :-)

[Uli Plank]

They better have something like CUDA or I'll think about switching 10 years after my last switch (from Avid).

[Martin Weiss]

Been with Final cut since 1.25, but they really need a serious update.